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Senior Sales EngineerTwilio Inc.

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About us:

Twilio is providing a platform for building modern, communications-enabled applications that are cloud-based, scalable, and focused on great user experience.
More than 200,000 developers have signed up to be a part of this disruption, building everything from call centers (Zendesk) to SMS notifications (Uber).
Twilio customers include great brands like airbnb, eBay, Hulu, Intuit, LinkedIn, Quora, Sony, SurveyMonkey, Trulia and WalmartLabs.
Twilio is energizing the $1.3 trillion telecom market. Come help us change communications forever.
About the job:

Twilio Sales Engineers equip customers and prospects to successfully implement Twilio's APIs. As the primary technical contact for a diverse customer base, Twilio Sales Engineers are highly competent IT/software generalists and are conversant with all stages of the software development lifecycle.
The Senior Sales Engineer role is predominantly Enterprise (outside) sales focused, with flexible travel at around 20%.
Based in San Francisco.
Responsibilities:

Together with an Enterprise Account Representative, educate prospects and customers on what is possible with Twilio and share best practices for implementing common use cases.
Understand customer requirements and communicate the business value of solving technology problems using Twilio.
During a customer's implementation, assist developers, product managers and project owners with any and all product issues that arise.
Prepare demos and proof-of-concepts to demonstrate various use cases for Twilio's APIs.
Assist developers with debugging their code in a variety of programming languages.
Document the architectural solutions that customers have designed and deployed.
Distill and communicate customer needs to Twilio?s Product Management group.
Requirements:

5 years professional experience in a technical consultation role: pre-sales or post-sales. Technical sales or business development experience strongly preferred.
Professional exposure to software development processes and enterprise IT procurement and implementation.
A firm understanding of the technology stacks common to the Web ecosystem. A demonstrated history of creating non-trivial applications in Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, PHP, Javascript or some other modern, general purpose programming language.
A world-class communicator. Confident dispensing knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a comparable technical field.
Bonus points:

It would be great if you built a Twilio app yourself before you come in to talk to us (hint, hint).
Perks:

Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k and life insurance.
An Amazon Kindle, $30/month to spend on books and a Twilio track jacket after demoing your first Twilio app in front of the company!
Pre-tax commuter benefits.
Catered lunches and a weekly team dinner featuring invited technology and entrepreneurial speakers.
Excellent gear (we ? Apple computers and big monitors ? two if you need 'em).
A strong belief in work/life balance.
How to apply:

Want to stand out? Sign up and build an app using the Twilio API. Include a link to it in your cover letter.
Bonus points for pointing out bugs or things that annoyed you/could be better about the platform.